Name Stephen Raveendra | ||
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Awards Police Medal for Gallantry (2005), Prime Minister s Police Medal for Life Saving 2010, Antrik Suraksha Seva Padak 2004. Rank Deputy Inspector General, Greyhounds | ||
Stephen raveendra ips the great
M. Stephen Raveendra(ముత్యాల స్టీఫెన్ రవీంద్ర ) (born 14 February 1973) is the present Inspector General of Police of Hyderabad Range also holding full additional charge as Deputy Inspector General of Police with his office situated in Lakdi-ka-pul, Hyderabad.
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- Stephen raveendra ips the great
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- Early life and Schooling
- Career
- Achievements
- References
Raveendra is a 1999 batch Regular Recruit (RR) of the Indian Police Service who got trained at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad, India and was inducted into the IPS on 20 September 1999. Raveendra was the West Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City Police. and was DIG in the elite special forces of Greyhounds. In 2015, Raveendra was a resource person at the Strategic Gaming Exercise on Left Wing Extremism held by the United Service Institution, New Delhi.
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Early life and Schooling
Officer Raveendra is the son of an illustrious Police Officer DSP M. B. Ranjit who earlier retired as the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Asifnagar Division, Hyderabad City Police. Raveendra was schooled at St. Paul's High School, Little Flower Junior College and Nizam College, all in Hyderabad. After post-graduate studies at the Osmania University where he received a gold medal in Zoology, he cleared the Union Public Service Commission entrance and opted for IPS and underwent training at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad.
Career
Raveendra's initial posting was in Warangal District where he was groomed by Damodar Gautam Sawang who was at that time Deputy Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range. Incidentally, Noel Swaranjit Sen happened to be the Director General and Inspector General of Police of Andhra Pradesh when Raveendra was in Warangal District. The colleagueship of Swaranjit-Sawang-Stephen helped in containing the terrorist tactics of Naxalites.
Achievements
So far in Raveendra's career he has encountered Naxalism (as SP-in-Warangal), Factionalism (as SP-in-Anantapur), Corruption (as SP-in-Karimangar), Regionalism (as DCP-in-East Zone) and presently erdicated Drugs from Hyderabad city. (as DCP-in-West Zone) and fought naxal terrorist violence as Group Commander (Ops) GreyHounds
The areas under the jurisdiction of West Zone are in the news due to frequent arrests of persons possessing drugs. The problem of drugs is under current debate so much that the former Commissioner of Police A. K. Khan even addressed a seminar conducted at the Centre for Economic Studies in Hyderabad on the topic "War on Drugs" where Officer Raveendra was also present .Mr.Raveendra in a dare-devil act of self-less courage saved the lives of 61 patients who were trapped in a fire accident in a hospital for which he was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister s Life saving Medal. Likewise, he was awarded Gallantary medal for high-risk anti-extremist operations.
Parallels may be drawn between the colleagueship of Commissioner of Police A. K. Khan and Deputy Commissioner of Police Raveendra to Mumbai's then Commissioner of Police Julio Francis Ribeiro and Deputy Commissioner of Police Y. C. Pawar who also waged a war on drugs during their tenures in the mid eighties.